NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- If your child's pacifier falls on the floor, what should you do? Conventional wisdom has long been to clean the pacifier with soap and water before giving it back. But CBS 2's ...

My daughter used her pacifier until she was 3 and a half years old, and it seems everyone from her teachers to strangers on the street had an unsolicited opinion on it. Some people even went as far as ...

Breaking the habit won’t be fun for anyone. But following a few tips — starting with keeping calm and consistent — will make the process smoother. Credit...Getty Images Supported by By Anna ...

With a new baby, a pacifier can work wonders — quieting tears and inducing calm almost instantaneously. But now that your little one is walking and talking, you may start to wonder whether it's time ...

As with most things related to newborns, using a pacifier can come with pluses and minuses. If your newborn is taking one (some don’t!), it’s probably their favorite go-to accessory. And while ...

Like lots of newborns, my son cried – a lot. To my first-time-mom ears, it felt like he was wailing every waking moment. In desperation late one night, I called a cousin who was a pediatric nurse for ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Every night, Lauren Finney Harden and her husband would awaken to the cries of their first-born daughter, and a routine game of “paci pong ...

Many parents feel that pacis, binkies, dummies — or whatever your preferred word for pacifiers happens to be — are something of a lifesaver. Along with helping babies self-soothe, they can also act as ...

The researchers found that children whose mothers sucked on the pacifier had lower IgE levels. If you think sucking your baby's pacifier to clean it and then popping it in your child's mouth is gross, ...

You see it there? It’s real. There is no question of whether or not Justin Bieber has been using a pacifier lately. (And, in fact, there are other photos to corroborate.) The question then is that ...